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"How am I supposed to unbutton your pants if you won’t letall over

"Not until I’m finished with you" He kisses a trail from my neck down tothe horseshoe tattoo ona belt buckle that says cocky?" I peer down at his waistband

"Oh, uet back to kissingback in I kiss the sensitive hollow of his neck His pulse races beneath my lips I bite his ear and his neck, as we squirether

"Not too hard" He pauses to smile at me "My parents will kill me if I show up at breakfast with a hickey"

"Oh" My face fla at les me closer beneath the blankets

We ainst me and rocks his hips, slowly at first, then faster and faster, and then he finally pushes past the elastic of my panties, to touchhis name over and over I reach between us and unbutton his pants and tug his boxers down, exploring where he’s hard and silky

"I think you like

"You’re okay," I tease

"Just okay?" he h "Just okay?"

"Fine" I touch his cheek and return his gaze, feeling so s "I like you so htstand, opens the top drawer, and pulls out a condo--about to tell hiins to slip my underwear dohen I hear a noise

This house is so old you can hear every creak and groan, especially fro up the stairs

"Hide!" Jack whispers, throwing the bedcovers back, ju his pants He rushes to his dresser and fishes out a T-shirt

I grab my dress and shoes and catapult oddamned bedroom I hide behind one of Jack’s suits and try to listen to what’s happening out in the roo it to uy smell God, I’ve become a complete psycho

I clench up when the knock sounds on the door

"Coht," hisearly"

"Are you alone?" Mr Goodwin asks

A heartbeat "Yeah, just tired Gotta get up early"

After a long, heart attack-inducing silence, Mr Goodwin says, "All right Sleep well"

"I love you," Mrs Goodwin adds

"Love you too," Jack says, and a second later I hear the door click shut I hide beside Jack’s cowboy boot collection for several s open

"Sorry about that," he whispers, reaching a hand out I grab it and pull his From his pocket he whips out a red lollipop--one of the fancy ones you can only get at the Cracker Barrel I hold it against my chest I’ll save it for a special occasion

"You’d better get down to Hillcrest," he says quietly, helping me to my feet

"Jack?"

"H a thuet back in bed with you"

He pushes ain for another passionate kiss "I’ve never--" he starts "You and ht He slaainst mine When he pulls away, I feel his absence, like when I eat toast without butter

"Jack? You’re not dating anybody, right? Not Abby or Kelsey or soht?"

He chuckles "Naw I had a girlfriend…Jenna Lukens…we broke up"

"Why?" I whisper

"My mom introduced us And I liked her a lot at first…But Jenna went to this private school up on Monteagle Mountain and we didn’t do the long-distance thing so well, and she ended up cheating on me" His face turns a rosy pink "And she was all sorts of draifts and stuff"

"So you want soes my nose with his "Listen, if my dad catches you here, he’ll roast rill for you souy"

He grins "

He picks my dress up off the floor, dusts it off, and holds it out so I can put it back on I pull my hair to the side, and he kisses my back as he zips ain until he murmurs breathlessly, "God, you’re beautiful"

I didn’t kno bad I needed to hear that until he said it He already hadonly my underwear He didn’t have to say I’m beautiful

But he did

The Walk of Shame

"I kneas in trouble when I woke up and Luke Skywalker was staring back ata slice of rhubarb pie with her She said she desperately needed to talk to me, so here I aet rid of those sheets! I knew soht happen…So you saw the sheets? Does that mean…?"